Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-29
NORTH CAROLINA.
zEx CONVECTION or rHT woxANs
cHglsTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
Escape OF CONGRATULATIONS to Mr..
cloveisna~Ths Frost Probable Ia
tai Kisk- Elopsment.
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tober 3ist.
Three convicts escaped yesterday
from the force employedin grading the
Carthage railway.
A mass meeting OF the citizens OF vii
mington will be held tomorrow TO con.
slider the extension Of the Cape-Fear
and Yadkin.valley railway TO that
point. A meeting of the directors OF
that road viii choose deep-water ter
minis. The claims OF Morehead and
Wilmington, and perhaps Charleston,
will be then presented.
President Cleveland has been invited
by the Asheville Board Of Trade TO visit
that place during his tour through
Western North Carolina.
Fuller advices from Asheyille in re-
gard TO the effects OF the frost on the
tobacco crop in the mountain section
state that al least one half Of the crop
is standing, and that one fourth of that
is injured. The frost in Newberne was
the earliest in great many years. III
has done no material injury tc the
crops.
Everett Stephens, Wake-county
farmer, while in the city to-day was
kicked on the head by horse, and his
injuries are possibly fatal. de is still
insensible.
Chief-Justice Smith, of the Supreme
Court, has returned from New York,
where he has been for medical treat
ment.
Governor Scales to-day appointed J.
II. Hendren, of Norfolk, Va, commits
sioner of deeds for North Carolina.
Another elopement is reported-this
time from Davidson College. The wife
of w. J. Gibson eloped with Dave
Breedlove atlas Walter Blair. The
woman leaves six children behind her,
and Breedlove's sixteen-year-old son
accompanies him in his flight. 1t is
said they have gone to Spartanburg.
Rev. G. A. Gault, of the North Caro-
lima Methodist Conference, died at lay
louisville few days ago.
The Raleigh water-wOrks system was
officially tested this afternoon in the
presence of Mayor Thompson, City
Attorney Gray, the Board of Alder
men, City-Engineer Winslow, the Fire
Commissioners, and Chief-of- the-tlre'
Department Blake. The test was en-
tirely satisfactory, Eight streams were
thrown at once to the height of over
100 feet with sixty-seven pounds OF
pressure. The works were built by the
National Water-W Works Company OF
DAYTON. O., and cost over Sl6O, 900.
President Gates Hall, Of that company,
and several Baltimore capitalists who
are stockholders. were present at the
tests. Tie quality of the water, like
the quantity, is highly satisfactory.
A Durham man was asked to-day the
question whether it was believed there
generally that all the projected rail
WAYS would be built. He said that
some persons have misgivings as to the
Oxford and GAINESVILLE railway, and
think it viii never be constructed.
Their grounds for this belief, or idea,
are not known.
The Piedmont Reduction Company,
Of Thomasville, will begin work next
Monday, your correspondent learned
to-day. The works are extensive. The
plant cost $4,000. The mines are at
Silver Valley, in Davidson county,
twelve miles distant, and a log road
has been constructed between the two
points. The mines yield complex
ore-zinc and lead and gold and silver
and some copper. The works will re-
duce this and will make pig-lead aud
refined zinc. and the gold and silver
will also be secured. Mr.. Slater, OF
Baltimore. is the president of the COM
pany which owns the mines and works,
and the stockholders are nearly all
Baltimore capitalists.
A good deal of interest is felt in the
action the Independents Will take III
politics. The Republicans will GER
tainly seek to utilize them, or, ia other
words, TO work them for all they are
worth. Nh. Richmond Pearson, OF
Asheville, stands rather at the head OF
the INDEPENDENTS. 1t is said that he il
well pleased at his course in the last
campaign and during the session OF the
Legislature. The independents will
before long be given an opportunity to
declare themselves. The coming cam
paign will be n square fight, with no
third party business, said a leading
Democrat to-day.
A gentleman who travels n great deal
in this State says be can count on the
fingers of his two hands the towns
which ere not improving. he says that
he is quite sure, as n dslnterested OBJ
server, that in general material pro-
gress no southern State surpaSses North
Carolina.
The military company recently or
ganized at Newberne has chosen as It's
local designation tho name Elm City
Rihemen.' The company which once
bore that name served calamity in the
late war. There is n general revival OF
the military spirit in the state.
The ice-iactory at Washington IL To
be removed to New6erne. Water from
an ATtesian well viii he used in the
manufacture OF ice. There are now
seven ice-factories in this state.
A shuttle block factory is to be estab-
lished at Morganton. One at Raleigh
would pay well. The burned factory
has never been rebuilt.
There appears TO be quite n dispute
between the Roman Catholics and Pro
testants in the Charlotte section, and
Father Gross on the side of the former
and Rev. DIR. j. b. Mack on the part oil
the Presbyterians are discussing the
questions with great warmth. The at
fair grows out Of the adoption by Meek
lenburg Presbytery of resolution con
demnatory of the Catholic Church.
The town Of Taylorsyille, the county
seat Of Alexandria county, will on Tho
3lst Of October celebrate the compile
ton OF it's railway. Trains will begin
to run regularly by tho 10th of tina
month. This line is now completed.
The frost this year was Just ten day
earlier than the first last year, which
came October 81. As rule frost come
about October 10th. There are all th'
indications Of an exceptionally early
fall.
The cotton-gin OF Il. 2. Clifton 4 Co.
near Louisburg, was burned Monday
The loss is about 81, 300.
A true bill has been returned by tht
grand jury OF this county against
young negro named Fleming Norris fol
outrageous assault, and he will be trie,
foi his life, for this is a capital crime.
GREENsBoR0'.
a Successful Notwithstanding